Italy kicks off Space Cloud project – Cloud
Italy’s state-owned Leonardo said that the Ministry of Defence had asked it to study the development of its military space cloud architecture project, the first…
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OpenAI, Meta and other tech giants sign effort to fight AI election interference – Strategy
A group of 20 tech companies have agreed to work together to prevent deceptive artificial-intelligence content from interfering with elections across the globe this year.…
‘broke.af’ goes offline as Afghan web domains suspended – Telco/ISP
More than 100 Afghan websites have been suspended after a French internet services firm failed to make payments to the Taliban-controlled Ministry of Communications, officials…
Reducing workforce complexity with a unified platform – Partner Content
Hybrid and remote working have become a flashpoint, as many businesses wind back programs instituted or accelerated during the pandemic. However, while leaders typically cite…
Telstra trials way to keep eftpos, critical voice services working during outages – Cloud – Telco/ISP
Telstra is trialling a way to keep critical services like eftpos and Services Australia numbers working in the event of a major network outage, by…
SolarWinds patches three critical bugs – Security
SolarWinds has patched five remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software, three of which are rated critical. The bugs were discovered…
Unpaid software bill cut off parliament expense system in January – Software
A 15-hour outage of parliamentarians’ expense system in January has been attributed to an unpaid invoice. The cause of the January 23 outage of the…
Mobile coverage mandated for new housing – Telco/ISP
Property developers could be required to consider mobile coverage during planning of housing developments larger than 50 dwellings. The federal government’s Telecommunications in New Developments…
Government moves to expand SMS Sender ID registry – Security – Telco/ISP
Nine months after announcing it would require telcos to use a Sender ID Registry to combat SMS spam, the government has started consultation over whether…
NDIA gets $83.9m to build anti-fraud IT systems – Software
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is set to receive $83.9 million in “new funding” to build or bolster IT systems used for fraud case…
Clayton Utz automating legal tasks with OpenAI, Relativity and Lexis+AI – Software
Clayton Utz has built a suite of tools to automate general and specialised legal tasks with OpenAI and RelativityOne, and is looking to save its…
AEC reorganisation opens CIO role – Strategy – Training & Development
The Australian Electoral Commission is looking for a chief information officer (CIO) for its enterprise transformation group (ETG). The commission told iTnews it is looking…